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On Sunday 07 May 2006 02:40, Robert Walter wrote: |
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> i had the same problem like you. dualboot gentoo & xp on a software raid |
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> chipset. (nforce4 in my case) unfortunately i didn't log all the steps |
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> needed to set it up :-( , but i can give you my modified scripts (written |
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> by gerte hoogewerf) and all the info i have to create an initrd if you |
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> want to give it a try. that ram disk "initializes" the raid files in |
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> /dev/mapper/*, before it is mounted sorry, i don't have all in mind right |
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> now. i have to replay the installation steps first. some basic things i |
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> still know. you need |
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...etc |
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Well, I tried the Software-RAID-HOWTO, and used a SuSE 9.3 DVD I had lying |
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around to create /dev/md0 to /dev/md5 on the /dev/sd[ab] disks that are |
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attached to the SATA interface. SuSE installed just fine and is happy to |
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run on these devices. |
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In spite of that, when I boot the Gentoo 2006.0 installation CD and tell it: |
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gentoo dodmraid dmraid=-ay |
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It says in the boot sequence: |
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Activating Device-Mapper RAID(s) |
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No RAID disks |
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Then when the image has booted, I say fdisk -l and I see the partitions |
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on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb with no trace of /dev/mdX. |
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What am I doing wrong? |
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Meanwhile I'll have a play with your scripts, Robert, and see if that gets |
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me anywhere - thanks. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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